A Woman Made A Shocking Discovery After Attempting To Use A DIY Tattoo Removal Kit

23-year-old Jess Hardy wanted to mislay a tattoo that featured her ex-boyfriend’s name. In an try to save a few hundred dollars, Jess inaugurated to skip a veteran laser treatment. Instead, she bought a “tattoo dismissal kit” online. The advertised pack was inexpensive (approximately $20). Not usually that, though she could use it during home!

The pack didn’t only mislay her tattoo…it also burnt divided her skin.

After a normal tattoo dismissal procedure, this is what a person’s skin should demeanour like.

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This is what Jess’s arm looked like after regulating a kit.

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The chemical in a kit, TCA, is intensely corrosive. It burnt divided her skin and left a hole in her arm.

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(via BBC Inside Out)

Although TCA (trichloroacetic acid) does mislay a tattoo, it should not be a process used by amateurs during home. There are other ways to mislay or relieve a coming of a tattoo: laser tattoo removal, dermabrasion, salabrasion (scrubbing a skin with salt), cryosurgery, and excision.

Or this.

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Buyers beware: if something online sounds too good to be true, it substantially is. Don’t make a mistake Jess did and bake a hole by your arm (literally or figuratively).